On Saturday, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant claimed that access to justice should not be an abstract idea and it should be translated to meaningful outcomes to marginalised and vulnerable citizens. He opined that the justice delivery system should not be made exclusive, petty and unresponsive, particularly to the last in the queue.
Addressing the 11 th biennial meeting of the Commonwealth Judicial Educators, the CJI indicated that judicial leadership is not the administrative authority or the rank of a hierarchy. Rather, he characterized it as an intellectual and moral undertaking which was based on empathy, constitutional values and service to the people.
Access to justice should not be an imaginary ideal of the legally empowered. It should be a practical alleviation to the disfavored citizen whose belief in the justice system remains in its availability and humanness, he said.
In emphasizing the use of technology in the contemporary courts, Justice Kant emphasized that the artificial intelligence must be used to support the judicial operations but should not be used to substitute human reasoning or judicial discretion. He warned that complexity in procedures must not be used as an obstacle to the citizens seeking legal redress.
The CJI reported that increasing popularity of arbitration, mediation and specialised courts is the indication of a shift to the model that was based on litigation to a more expanded and more justice-focused ecosystem. This change, according to him, is to make sure that justice is efficient, timely and responsive to the needs of litigants.
He also emphasized that the courts should always keep the people trusting the court with rationality, openness and uniformity, and at the same time, hold firm to the guidelines of constitutional identity by enduring the changing societal pressure.
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